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@inproceedings{panconesi1,
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 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {conductance, rumor spreading, social networks},
} 

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author = {Flavio Chierichetti and Silvio Lattanzi and Alessandro Panconesi},
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 address = {Philadelphia, PA, USA},
} 


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 publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
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} 



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 publisher = {Weizmann Science Press of Israel},
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} 

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} 
  

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title = "A star-based model for the eigenvalue power law of Internet graphs ",
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volume = "351",
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pages = "680 - 686",
year = "2005",
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url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437105000336",
author = "Francesc Comellas and Silvia Gago",
keywords = "Internet graph",
keywords = "Small-world scale-free networks",
keywords = "Power laws",
keywords = "Eigenvalues "
}
 
@inproceedings{gia1,
 author = {Giakkoupis, George and Sauerwald, Thomas},
 title = {Rumor Spreading and Vertex Expansion},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
 series = {SODA '12},
 year = {2012},
 location = {Kyoto, Japan},
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 acmid = {2095245},
 publisher = {SIAM},
} 



@inproceedings{pana1,
author = {Fountoulakis, Nikolaos and Panagiotou, Konstantinos and Sauerwald, Thomas},
 title = {Ultra-fast Rumor Spreading in Social Networks},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
 series = {SODA '12},
 year = {2012},
 location = {Kyoto, Japan},
 pages = {1642--1660},
 numpages = {19},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2095116.2095246},
 acmid = {2095246},
 publisher = {SIAM},
} 

@inproceedings{pana2, 
 author = {Fountoulakis, Nikolaos and Panagiotou, Konstantinos},
 title = {Rumor Spreading on Random Regular Graphs and Expanders},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Approximation, and 14 the International Conference on Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Techniques},
 series = {APPROX/RANDOM'10},
 year = {2010},
 isbn = {3-642-15368-2, 978-3-642-15368-6},
 location = {Barcelona, Spain},
 pages = {560--573},
 numpages = {14},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1886521.1886565},
 acmid = {1886565},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
 address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
 keywords = {random regular graphs, rumor spreading},
} 


@article{panconesi3,
author = {Flavio Chierichetti and Silvio Lattanzi and Alessandro Panconesi},
title = "Rumor spreading in social networks ",
journal = "Theoretical Computer Science ",
volume = "412",
number = "24",
pages = "2602 - 2610",
year = "2011",
note = "Selected Papers from 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2009) ",
issn = "0304-3975",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.11.001",
url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304397510006122",
author = "Flavio Chierichetti and Silvio Lattanzi and Alessandro Panconesi",
keywords = "Rumour spreading",
keywords = "Preferential attachment "
}




@article{ozalp1,
   author = {Jelasity, M\'{a}rk and Montresor, Alberto and Babaoglu, Ozalp},
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 doi = {10.1016/j.comnet.2009.03.013},
 acmid = {1570626},
 publisher = {Elsevier North-Holland, Inc.},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {Bootstrapping, Gossip-based protocols, Overlay networks, Self-organizing middleware},
} 



@article{ozalp2,
author = "Ozalp Babaoglu and M{\'a}rk Jelasity",
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author = {Berns, Andrew and Ghosh, Sukumar and Pemmaraju, Sriram V.},
 title = {Brief Announcement: A Framework for Building Self-stabilizing Overlay Networks},
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 keywords = {overlay networks, self-stabilization},
} 


@inproceedings{jacob,
author = {Jacob, Riko and Richa, Andrea and Scheideler, Christian and Schmid, Stefan and T\"{a}ubig, Hanjo},
 title = {A Distributed Polylogarithmic Time Algorithm for Self-stabilizing Skip Graphs},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing},
 series = {PODC '09},
 year = {2009},
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@inproceedings{doerr,
author = {Doerr, Benjamin and Friedrich, Tobias and Sauerwald, Thomas},
 title = {Quasirandom Rumor Spreading},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Algorithms},
 issue_date = {November 2014},
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 number = {2},
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 acmid = {2650185},
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 keywords = {Distributed computing, broadcasting, expander, quasirandomness, random graphs, rumor spreading},
} 
 
  
 @inproceedings{gia2,
author =	{George Giakkoupis},
  title =	{{Tight bounds for rumor spreading in graphs of a given conductance}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2011) },
  pages =	{57--68},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-25-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{9},
  editor =	{Thomas Schwentick and Christoph D{\"u}rr},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2011/2997},
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}

 

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 series = {SODA '05},
 year = {2005},
 isbn = {0-89871-585-7},
 location = {Vancouver, British Columbia},
 pages = {293--300},
 numpages = {8},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1070432.1070474},
 acmid = {1070474},
 publisher = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
 address = {Philadelphia, PA, USA},
} 



 
@INPROCEEDINGS{frieze2,
   author = {Cooper, Colin and Frieze, Alan},
 title = {Crawling on Web Graphs},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thiry-fourth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing},
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 year = {2002},
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 location = {Montreal, Quebec, Canada},
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 numpages = {9},
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} 

@article{kuhn+lo:dynamic,
 author = {Kuhn, Fabian and Lynch, Nancy and Oshman, Rotem},
 title = {Distributed Computation in Dynamic Networks},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Forty-second ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing},
 series = {STOC '10},
 year = {2010},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-0050-6},
 location = {Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA},
 pages = {513--522},
 numpages = {10},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1806689.1806760},
 doi = {10.1145/1806689.1806760},
 acmid = {1806760},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {distributed algorithms, dynamic networks},
} 

@inproceedings{kempe1, 
author = {Kempe, David and Kleinberg, Jon M.},
 title = {Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms},
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 year = {2002},
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 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
 address = {Washington, DC, USA},
} 

@inproceedings{kempe2, 
author = {Kempe, David and Kleinberg, Jon and Demers, Alan},
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 series = {STOC '01},
 year = {2001},
 isbn = {1-58113-349-9},
 location = {Hersonissos, Greece},
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@book{upfal,
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@article{jain+ms:steiner,
   author = {Jain, Kamal and Mahdian, Mohammad and Salavatipour, Mohammad R.},
 title = {Packing Steiner Trees},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
 series = {SODA '03},
 year = {2003},
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 location = {Baltimore, Maryland},
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@article{cheriyan+s:steiner,
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 acmid = {1325660},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.},
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 keywords = {Approximation algorithms, Hardness of approximation, Packing problems, Steiner trees},
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@article{charikar+ccdgg:steiner,
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 acmid = {334361},
 publisher = {Academic Press, Inc.},
 address = {Duluth, MN, USA},
 keywords = {Steiner tree problem, approximation algorithm, directed graph},
} 


@article{lau:steiner,
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 publisher = {Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.},
 address = {Secaucus, NJ, USA},
 keywords = {05C40, 05C70, 68R10, 68W25},
} 




@article{guruswami+krsy,
 author = {Guruswami, Venkatesan and Khanna, Sanjeev and Rajaraman, Rajmohan and Shepherd, Bruce and Yannakakis, Mihalis},
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@article{ittai,
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 acmid = {1148386},
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@INPROCEEDINGS{leighton,
    author = {Harchol-Balter, Mor and Leighton, Tom and Lewin, Daniel},
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@inproceedings{kutten,
  author = {Kutten, Shay and Peleg, David and Vishkin, Uzi},
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 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures},
 series = {SPAA '01},
 year = {2001},
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 location = {Crete Island, Greece},
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 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/378580.378592},
 doi = {10.1145/378580.378592},
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@inproceedings{dimitriov+p:coupon,
  uthor = {Dimitrov, Nedialko B. and Plaxton, C. Greg},
 title = {Optimal Cover Time for a Graph-based Coupon Collector Process},
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 series = {ICALP'05},
 year = {2005},
 isbn = {3-540-27580-0, 978-3-540-27580-0},
 location = {Lisbon, Portugal},
 pages = {702--716},
 numpages = {15},
 url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11523468_57},
 doi = {10.1007/11523468_57},
 acmid = {2104137},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
 address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
} 

@inproceedings{adler+hkv:p2p,
author = {Adler, Micah and Halperin, Eran and Karp, Richard M. and Vazirani, Vijay V.},
 title = {A Stochastic Process on the Hypercube with Applications to Peer-to-peer Networks},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing},
 series = {STOC '03},
 year = {2003},
 isbn = {1-58113-674-9},
 location = {San Diego, CA, USA},
 pages = {575--584},
 numpages = {10},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/780542.780626},
 doi = {10.1145/780542.780626},
 acmid = {780626},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {coupon collector, hash table, hypercube, load balancing, peer to peer},
} 



@article{alon:combinatorics,
   author = {Alon, Noga},
 title = {Problems and Results in Extremal combinatorics-II},
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 issue_date = {October, 2008},
 volume = {308},
 number = {19},
 month = oct,
 year = {2008},
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 numpages = {13},
 url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2007.08.090},
 doi = {10.1016/j.disc.2007.08.090},
 acmid = {2653679},
 publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.},
 address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands},
 keywords = {Coupon collector, Covering codes, Extremal Graph Theory},
} 



@inproceedings{chen-spaa,
 author = {Chen, Jen-Yeu and Pandurangan, Gopal},
 title = {Optimal Gossip-based Aggregate Computation},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures},
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